The distance modality, an alternative to achieve the mission of the Polytechnic Salesian University

Abstract

The Polytechnic Salesian University of Ecuador, created in 1994, according with the policies for the Salesian presence in Higher Education in the world (Rome, 2003), develops its institutional administration with the purpose to offer the youth a quality formation which helps the insertion to the labour market and mainly motivate and promote a responsible social commitment that surpasses the immediate market needs, and transcend to a necessary change to improve the quality of personal and social life to which we belong. The educational experience of the Polytechnic Salesian University of Ecuador in marginal areas of society, the Distance Modality constitutes an alternative of high social impact, through which the University concretes one of the most outstanding characteristics of its institutional mission which is referred to offer a quality formation to young people and students with limited possibilities to achieve high level studies.